How Do Nonvascular Plants Get Their Water?

Nonvascular plants are plants that do not have any special internal pipelines or channels to carry water and nutrients. Instead, nonvascular plants absorb water and minerals directly through their leaflike scales. Nonvascular plants are usually found growing close to the ground in damp, moist places.

How do vascular plants get water?

Vascular plants get water through their root system, and it is conducted up through the plant within vascular tissue called xylem.

How do nonvascular plants transport water and nutrients?

Nonvascular plants lack root structures to access soil nutrient pools, and instead rely on nutrients directly absorbed from deposition, throughfall, and leachates from overstory vegetation. Their lack of a cuticle and vascular structures allows the passive, rapid absorption of water over their entire surface.